Hi Jim, you should use JAWS start up wizzard found under help menu instead of settings center. there, you can change many useful settings such as keybord echo, provacity level to your liking, brail displays (if you have any), virtual ribuns and more. note, it automatically launches as soon as you activate JAWS. as for your windows 10, I would say you can upgrade if you want. there is really no problems if even you upgrade to it. I have upgraded and it is running fine. the JAWS murge utility is no longer available in JAWS. tell me if you face any problems and I will try to help you. hope that helps, amit
On 12/31/15, Brian Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > Others here can address your JAWS questions far more accurately and > quickly than I can. I just want to touch on your decision to go to Windows > 10. > > If I may ask, what version of Windows are you using now? Regardless > of your answer to that question, I would strongly suggest that you not move > to Windows 10 for a few months yet. I have been involved with Windows 10 > since the preview period when I joined the Insiders Program. I am writing > to you right now from a machine running Windows 10, upgraded from 8.1, but > there is no doubt that Windows 10 is still a work in progress. There have > been more than a few issues that have cropped up secondary to the new "you > will apply every Windows Update" mechanism among others. I don't think a > jump into Windows 10 is a good idea for anyone, yet, who isn't a "tech geek" > who's pretty darned proficient with troubleshooting and dealing with "late > beta" software. When you add assistive technology into the mix the > potential for disaster goes way up. > > Once the next major update, code named Redstone I think, comes out > in the spring I'd feel a lot more comfortable about recommending that an AT > user think about making the transition. Even then, I would tell anyone > who's on a version of Windows earlier than Windows 8 that they are going to > be in for a big shock. Windows 7 was the last version of Windows that, from > the perspective of the user interface, followed a progressive narrative flow > from each earlier version of Windows into the next. Windows 8 was a > tectonic shift in the user interface, so much so that I advised any of my > sighted clients that they should definitely only purchase a touch screen > enabled machine to work with it, since it was so geared toward acting "like > a smartphone" with regard to activating apps and the like. Windows 10 is a > wedding of things we've always known from Windows, like the Start menu, and > elements of the new Metro/tile based interface. Even the new Start menu is > displayed as a collection of tiles, not as the vertical column of programs > as it had been in all versions of Windows prior to 8. > > I would be fascinated to hear how any early adopters of the > "bleeding edge" version of Windows 10 that we've had since July who are also > AT users are finding working with it. I personally love Windows 10, but I > was also prepared for all the bumps that I knew would come when Microsoft > rolls out any new version of Windows, and many people simply are not (and, > really, should not have to be, either). I've been on this ride many times > since I started my first career in information technology all the way back > in 1985. > > Brian > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#36004): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/36004 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/308589?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
